Projects like the East River Skyway are an innovative solution.
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Skyway, the main road in and out of Paradise, Calif.
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The original Skyway shut down in November 1999 to "," Yesterland reported.
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The Pulaski Skyway in Kearny, New Jersey, is constantly backed up.
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In 2014, Mr. Levy formed East River Skyway, a limited liability corporation.
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The worsening winds led officials to close Sunshine Skyway Bridge spanning Tampa Bay.
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We're hauling ass south on the Chicago Skyway, minutes from the Indiana border.
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Sister communities, we are connected by the Skyway, a four-lane, winding road.
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As we sped through Skyway, the blazing inferno licked the sides of cars.
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The Skyway opened in June 1956 and made its last run in 1994.
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Would the Skyway operate as a private entity or would it be city-regulated?
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The aerial skyway offers panoramic views of the gardens and the nearby Marina Bay.
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Airport services group Skyway Aviation Handling Company (SAHCOL) anticipates losses of over $250,000 each day.
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While air-conditioned indoor parks and the 1103-foot-tall Skyway close at 9 p.m.
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A man wearing a disposable particulate respirator walks along Skyway Road in Paradise, California, on Thursday.
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Engineers say the East River Skyway could transport about 5,000 people per hour in either direction.
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Nearby, on Skyway, the commercial strip winding through the town, the Pelicans Roost Restaurant, Dutch Bros.
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But after just a few minutes along a road known as Skyway, they hit gridlock traffic.
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When people wanted to get from Tomorrowland to Fantasyland, they rode the Disneyland Skyway gondola lift.
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The East River Skyway will be designed to sustain winds as high as 75-miles-per-hour.
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The Sunshine Skyway Bridge in St. Petersburg, Florida, feels like a design bait-and-switch to some.
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An underground subway links them all pre-security, while an elevated Skyway train connects them post-security.
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Warner Bros said it would pay for the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the proposed Hollywood Skyway.
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Downtown Minneapolis has a complex Skyway system that connects most of the office and commercial buildings via indoor walkways.
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You can walk on a skyway that encircles a 115-foot-tall "mountain" with the world's tallest indoor waterfall.
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Vulnerable structures range from the towering Sunshine Skyway Bridge to toxic waste sites from the state's phosphorous mining industry.
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In 2015, three big Canadian pension funds bought the operator of the Chicago Skyway toll road for nearly $3 billion.
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It's called the East River Skyway, but getting it actually constructed requires substantial regulatory maneuvering, and obviously lots of money.
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The city's decision to privatize its parking meters and the Chicago Skyway, a major toll road, has been widely criticized.
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Now the market is boarded up, spray-painted with a mural of a blue heart and the Pulaski Skyway bridge.
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A similarly cold place to be, Minneapolis, created a similar solution to this problem with its above-ground skyway system.
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It happened one day while I was vacuuming the hallway, I started singing, 'Walking down the hallway, looking at the skyway.
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The San Juan Skyway is a 8-mile loop in Southwestern Colorado that takes drivers through the San Juan National Forest.
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Demand for that skyway will only increase as Cornell finishes building its satellite campus on Roosevelt Island in a few years.
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On Friday afternoon, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay was closed to traffic because of 70-mile-per-hour winds.
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The northbound lanes of the Pulaski Skyway were also closed after traffic backed up from the Routes 1 and 9 shutdowns.
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One of those road projects was an overhaul of the Pulaski Skyway, a highway bridge that connects Jersey City and Newark.
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It's unclear how far along the East River Skyway plan is, but it's important to highlight that it is just a plan.
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In the past four years, Levy's been working on turning his idea—which he calls the East River Skyway—into a reality.
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When I pulled up to Skyway, shoppers milled in and out of Aubuchon Hardware, Gioiosia's Wine & Spirits, and Yando's Big M Supermarket.
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This April, wildflowers have fiercely reclaimed the hillsides, the roadsides of the Skyway connecting the neighboring towns, and their surviving garden beds.
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That boat carried only about 35 passengers, some of whom, including Mr. Halligan, had not switched because of the Pulaski Skyway work.
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One of the worst scenes was Skyway Road, the town's main artery and one of the designated evacuation routes, which was quickly overwhelmed.
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The rapper was performing at the Skyway Theatre in Minneapolis Friday night when we're told the young man tossed an object at him.
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Cover image: Donald Trump visits the charred wreckage of Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park in Paradise, California, U.S., November 17, 2018.
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The plan for an East River Skyway is actually built on the success of the Roosevelt Island Tram, which the city renovated in 2010.
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Of course, this is a long game for them, as they're eying the Domino Sugar Factory project as an impetus to build the skyway.
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"I took him to the Skyway rest area and talked with him and he assured me that he wasn't going to jump," Farley said.
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The governor's office released photos and video of Cuomo lifting a gate near the Buffalo Skyway entrance so that he could assess road conditions.
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You'll doubtless hear more about the epic San Juan Skyway that snakes through 14,85033-foot peaks, Indian pueblos and Victorian towns in southwest Colorado.
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"Nobody could have thought this would ever happen," Trump told reporters amid the charred wreckage of the town's Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park.
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So VICE reached out to Levy to discuss the Skyway, where he's at in the planning process, and whether or not this is actually happening.
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A Skyway gondola original vehicle from the 1950s, which sold for $621,000, set a new auction record for a Disneyland ride, Van Eaton Galleries said.
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The viaduct is about five years younger than the Pulaski Skyway, the much longer, elevated highway that leads from the Turnpike toward the Holland Tunnel.
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Sunshine Skyway Bridge from Fort De Soto Park (Image: Ronnie Boone)Summer is coming—and it's going to be an incredibly, absurdly hot one for America.
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There is an idea for a 'Skyway,' or a shiny new gondola, lifting 5,000 New Yorkers every hour over the East River in five minutes flat.
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Jacksonville probably comes out best among the top five for public transportation options, given the JTA's extensive and varied commuting choices, including the futuristic Skyway monorail.
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As they drew closer to Skyway, Farley asked a toll taker to talk to the passenger about using the phones at the top of the bridge.
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There were majestic oaks and volcanic rocks strewn across golden prairies all the way up to Paradise along Skyway, the road that links the two towns.
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The employee Motherboard spoke with at Coinmint's Skyway location said he started as a contractor during the setup phase and been hired to maintain the mine.
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The imaginary automobile moves slowly, runs on steam, and — as revealed in the opening track, "Trans-Island Skyway" — even has a bionic vegetable garden in the trunk.
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One plan, the East River Skyway, would connect Williamsburg in Brooklyn to Lower Manhattan with a gondola that would rise to 415 feet alongside the Williamsburg Bridge.
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Starring Nick Apostolides, Phil Amico, and Elizabeth Deo, The Suffering won the audience award at the Skyway Film Festival and is set for a limited July 2016 release.
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And in Albany, the proposed Skyway seeks to transform a half-mile-long unneeded highway ramp into a landscaped promenade linking downtown to the Hudson River waterfront park.
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On Friday, as the fire roared down the hill along the Skyway, I thought of my stepdad's house where my mother and I had lived during my childhood.
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In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, Paradise's main connection to the outside world is Skyway, a highway that runs along a ridge, making escape even more dangerous.
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IN a new commercial for the Fisher-Price Little People Sit 'n Stand Skyway, Lili Boglarka Havasi claps and smiles as the cars zoom down the plastic raceway.
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Authorities on Wednesday night closed the Buffalo Skyway, a critical segment of New York State Route 5 through the city, which was under a blizzard warning through early Friday.
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His sneakers, white platforms with light-up Lucite soles, flashed red as he led me up a flight of stairs and across a small skyway to a conference room.
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Among the projects Mr. Christie chose to spend the Port Authority's money on was an overhaul of the Pulaski Skyway, a highway bridge that connects Jersey City and Newark.
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As Lifehacker pointed out, local news station 10News WTSP is running several cams from the Tampa area, including a few radar maps and a view of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.
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PARADISE, California — It was a bright, unusually hot September day on Skyway Road, and there was a distinct heaviness in the air that residents here knew all too well. Smoke.
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She was working a shift at Nic's, a restaurant preparing to open on Skyway Road, and with her coworkers buzzing in the adjacent room, she seemed anxious to help out.
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The East River Skyway is a plan to connect Williamsburg and the Lower East Side with a gondola system that could shuttle over 5,000 people in either direction per hour.
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At a memorial last weekend, a parade of 85 flags, honoring the fire dead, lined Paradise's main thoroughfare, the Skyway, amid newly reopened businesses, burned-out buildings and charred lots.
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Mr. Sklar wrote Mr. Disney's narration for the "Magic Skyway" at the Ford pavilion, with its animatronic dinosaurs and cave men, and was the main link to major corporate sponsors.
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Several school districts curtailed summer programs and the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, part of a major north-south interstate freeway, was closed for several hours because of high winds.
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But Farley then noticed that the destination his passenger requested was one he had never seen before—it was right in the middle of the Skyway Bridge, crossing over Tampa Bay.
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According to Yesterland, a blog about retired Disney attractions, the Skyway was one of the first rides built in Disney World in 1971, and could transport travelers from Fantasyland to Tomorrowland.
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Even without the broader warnings, panicked residents spent hours stuck on Skyway trying to escape to Chico, the city in the valley below, and some died as flames engulfed their cars.
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Mr. Christie wanted $1.8 billion of Port Authority funds redirected from the canceled tunnel to repairs on the state-owned Pulaski Skyway bridge and other road projects in northern New Jersey.
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Anders—a Sauga native—is likely the coolest person to walk that skyway, which is normally host to science students (I went to the school for years, I should know this).
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They raised two kids and saved enough to buy an RV to travel the country, eventually settling into lot No. 53 in Paradise's Skyway Villa mobile home park nearly 10 years ago.
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Coinmint operates out of the Skyway Shopping Center strip mall in Plattsburgh and, according to Read, used up the bulk of the 10 percent of the town's power attributed to cryptocurrency mining.
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"There's not really a road map for doing this type of project," said Daniel Levy, president of CityRealty, a real estate listings and data website, and the man behind East River Skyway.
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Mr. Schapiro said the Transportation Department had surveyed users of the Pulaski Skyway and concluded that 100 to 150 would shift from driving to riding the ferry to Jersey City or Hoboken.
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Why it matters: Cornell connects thousands of drivers each day to Lake Shore Drive, Stony Island Boulevard, and the Chicago Skyway, and connects South Siders to downtown Chicago and the Indiana Toll Road.
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Sunshine Skyway BridgeDeaths: 27 Where: Outside St. Petersburg, Florida When: May 21972, 1980 A freighter struck the bridge during a thunderstorm, sending a bus, six cars and a pickup truck into the bay.
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Metro Skyway, a subsidiary of the Tel Aviv-based Urban Aeronautics, just introduced its plans to build a four-person, hydrogen-powered "flying car" that it hopes will be buzzing above skyscrapers by 2022.
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Instead, the authorities narrowed Skyway in the center of town to improve pedestrian safety, reduce traffic and promote commerce — a decision that is sure to be scrutinized in the aftermath of the Camp Fire.
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In addition to other garages and a light rail station in East Town, the downtown Minneapolis Skyway System, an enclosed elevated walkway, was extended to the stadium to ease the demand for parking spaces.
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"Nobody could have thought this would ever happen," President Donald Trump told reporters as he visited Paradise on Saturday, speaking amid the charred wreckage of the town's Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park.
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"It's going to work out well, but right now we want to take of the people that are so badly hurt," Trump said visiting what remained of the Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park.
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This poor raccoon apparently got itself stranded on a ledge of the Town Square office building in downtown St. Paul, likely on an errant mission to raid pigeon nests on the skyway over 7th Street.
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The proposed tramway, tentatively named the Hollywood Skyway, would take six minutes and would transport tourists more than a mile up Mt. Lee to a new visitors' center near the sign, accompanied with a viewing area.
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Mr. Sanders's Brooklyn timbre once labored through Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" ("As I went wawking … that ribbon of highway … I sawr above me … that endless skyway"), but he eventually secured more professional help.
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"Ferry service was part of a larger mitigation strategy that has been successfully implemented as part of the Pulaski Skyway rehabilitation to ease congestion during construction," said Steve Schapiro, a spokesman for the State Department of Transportation.
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"There's this bridge here in Florida that they spent a bunch of money on to try to make it look like a suspension bridge but it's just really ugly," wrote a Twitter user about the new Sunshine Skyway.
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Once home, my family and I scanned our social media feeds, horrified, witnessing live videos of residents fleeing down the Skyway, flames enveloping them on either side, as the especially parched brush fast-tracked the nightmarish, galloping embers.
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Thus was born the East River Skyway: a plan to make the Western edge of Williamsburg—a riot of new construction that Levy calls "Dubai on the East River"—more like a ski town, by installing a gondola.
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The grove itself is free, but the best way to see the attraction is strolling along the OCBC Skyway, which sits 72 feet in the air and connects the vertical gardens; the entry fee is $5 per person.
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Customers of United Airlines whose flights were leaving from gates in that terminal had to go to another terminal to clear security and then ride the airport's skyway train to Terminal B to catch their flights, Mr. Trahan said.
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Joe Earley, a lawyer who fled his office on Skyway Road the morning of the fire, learned that the building where he started both his practice and his family had burned down when he saw the charred structure on TV news.
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The AAA, or American Automobile Association, said the tolls wrongly forced drivers to subsidize the "speculative" World Trade Center site redevelopment and pay for roadways that the Port Authority did not control, such as New Jersey's state-run Pulaski Skyway.
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Superman: Dawn of Justice Batcave (coming soon), Barbie Rainbow Cove Princess Castle Playset, Fisher Price Imaginext Bat Flight City, Fisher Price Little People Sit 'n Stand Skyway, My Little Pony Explore Equestria Crystal Empire Castle, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mega Lair Playset.
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Figg, based in Tallahassee, has designed a number of significant bridges in the United States, including one on Interstate 35W in Minneapolis that replaced a section that collapsed in 2007, and the iconic Sunshine Skyway Bridge over the mouth of Tampa Bay.
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There was only one way out of Paradise for residents fleeing the fire, the four-lane road known as Skyway, which quickly became paralyzed by traffic, a situation similar to what residents of Malibu endured along the Pacific Coast Highway, another choke point.
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As in other cities, suburban growth was already hurting downtown retailers in Des Moines, and that move, along with an extensive public skyway system, further diminished the number of shoppers strolling along the corridor and led to the eventual closing of Younkers and other stores.
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Warner Bros said in a statement that its proposal would "reduce street congestion, improve safety, and ease neighborhood frustrations," adding that it would include an educational visitor center at the top of the skyway, and a parking and transit hub near its Burbank studio.
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Like the proponents of the Albany-Rensselaer gondola, Mr. Levy thinks that the East River Skyway could be built with private financing and supported through a combination of ticket sales (monthly passes of about $25 to $30) and corporate sponsorships, similar to Citi Bike, the bicycle sharing program.
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When Dan Levy first proposed the "East River Skyway" in 270, it was hard to miss a reference to Lyle Lanley, the shuckster from "The Simpsons" who bilked a pie-in-the-sky idea that Springfield didn't necessarily want, or need: a shiny, brand spankin' new (but not necessarily functional) monorail.
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One project that would be spared is the rehabilitation of the Pulaski Skyway, which was the subject of controversy after Mr. Christie's administration persuaded the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to pay for the project using money that had been earmarked for a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River.
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The Albany Skyway plans call for taking an existing highway ramp that has connections to the riverfront park and a downtown area in the midst of redevelopment, closing it to traffic and landscaping it as a half-mile-long aerial promenade with trees, gardens, seating areas and space for art installations, food vendors and events ranging from farmers markets to music festivals.
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The vehicles are a big draw: at the exhibit's opening, guests lined up to take selfies in an original blue Skyway bucket or a car from Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, and to snap photos of Dumbo the Flying Elephant, a pirate ship from Peter Pan's Flight, and a yellow original PeopleMover vehicle -- one of only 13 known still to exist.
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